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Letter writers have protested to Hyatt and Illinois' Rosemont Village, which owns the Exposition Center. The group, "Mobilization for Survival," composed of antinuclear, environmentalist and peace activists, has threatened a demonstration if the exhibition takes place. One of the prospective protesters is Actor and Disarmament Delegate Paul Newman.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Up in Arms | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

The tide slowly began turning for the Thames in 1951. That was the year of the Festival of Britain, a national celebration marking the centennial of the Great International Exposition of 1851, which gave hundreds of thousands of visitors to London a whiff of the gamy river. Properly embarrassed, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Tale of Two Rivers | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Yet, pleasant as The Brink's Job is, one does miss some of the energy that Friedkin brings to his meaner movies. This film's exposition is too slow by half; the Brink's robbery itself is amusing without ever really being suspenseful. Perhaps some day both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Light Work | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Lacking a firm center in Frodo's story, the film plays itself out as a bewildering parade of elves, dwarves, ores, trolls and talking trees. Exposition flies by in jabberwockian confusion. Even the most dedicated students of Tolkien may not recall instantly what Edoras and Isengard are, and nonreaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Frodo Moves | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

As Natalie endures two deaths in the family and Tom tries to come to terms with his wife's infidelities, their affair frays and then severs. Though the doomed lovers are portrayed with grace and wit, the novel's style is curiously oblique, conveying intensity of feeling not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reviving the Story-Telling Art | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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